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I HATE INTELLECTUAL "PROPERTY" (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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let 10,000 "stolen" ideas bloom!!! ~~aaron swartz despite all of his (numerous, terribly nasty) brainworms~~ would have done more good for the oppressed living in the global south if he had succeeded in his mission of "stealing" the entirety of JSTOR than what the past century of western communists have done.

edit: think i must have been thinking of spez when i mentioned his brainworms lol

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

STOP DOING PATENTS

IDEAS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN AS POSESSIONS

YEARS OF LEGAL OWNERSHIP yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for denying free use

Wanted to make money? We had a tool for that: It was called "LABOR"

"Yes please give me ZERO OF SOMETHING. Please give me a LITERAL THOUGHT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what capitalists have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the laws & protections we built for them

"Hello I would like [detailed diagram] apples please"

They have played us for absolute fools

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I might save this copypasta

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Capital Is Dead pretty much makes the argument IP is the new form of rent extraction. That's why companies have the rights to music locked down, everything is a sequel, and why Apple make all the money from iphones when Foxcon are the company that actually makes them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ok I still idolize Aaron Schwartz a lot personally, can you give a quick rundown?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

honestly i was drunk last night when i made this post, i thought i remembered him being anti trans and such a free speech absolutist that he excused CSAM but i cant find anything on that when i look for it so i may have just gotten him mixed up in my head with spez? my bad aaron doggirl-tears

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I feel like 30% of my work at a drafting office is skirting IP. Which is tremendous waste if its endemic across industry. But also I would not be getting paid for that.